Sun rising over Himalayan Mountains from Sarangkot

Nepal--I've been to the mountaintop!

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April 9th 2007
If you're in Nepal, you really want to feel that you've been to the top of a mountain. We never got to see the Himalayan Mountains the way they look in postcards -- snowcapped mountains with clear, blue skies -- because we were visiting at the wrong time of year and it was too cloudy. Still we did get to see the sun rise over the Annapurna range and the Pokhara valley from a hillside town above P ... read more

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In 1951, the Nepalese monarch ended the century-old system of rule by hereditary premiers and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. A Maoist in... ... read more